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fir le Piece of Cannon in the different Actions between the Main Armies, though feveral fell into the Hands of the Enemy at Stockach.

The Archduke Ferdinand, as I have mentioned in another Difpatch, took Three Pieces from the Enemy at the Time when His Royal Highnefs formed his Junction with the Commander in Chief Rear Engen.

I have the Honor to be, &c.

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BULLETIN

FROM THE

LONDON GAZETTE or May 27th, 1800,

No. VII.

Downing-Street, May 27, 1800. ISPATCHES, of which the following are Copies, have been this Day received from William Wickham, Efq; His Majefty's Minifter Plenipotentiary and Commiffary at the Imperial Royal and Allied Armies, and from LieutenantColonel Clinton, by the Right Honorable Lord Grenville, His Majefty's Principal Secretary of State for the Foreign Department,

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MY LORD,

Head-Quarters, Memmingen, May 10, 1800. HAVE the Honor to inform your Lordship, that the Army marched in the Course of the Night of the 6th to Langen Enflingen; the Enemy fent only a Detachment to obferve the Movement of the Auftrians on the Left of the Danube, and marched with the Main Body of his Army in a Direction which gave General Kray an Apprehenfion for his Communication with Lieutenant-General Prince Reufs in the Voralberg; to preserve which he haftened by a forced March, recroffing the Danube at Riedlingen to Biberach, which Place he reached in the Afternoon of the 8th. The Army took a

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Pofition behind the Rifs. The Enemy however fitthad the Advance, and already occupied Waldfee. On the 9th, the Auftrian Advanced Pofts in Front of the Rifs were vigoroufly attacked and driven in. General Kray, withing to avoid engaging in a general Affair, fell back at Night to Ochfenhausen. Every report of the Enemy itated that he was still marching by his Right. This Morning the Army croffed the Iller in Two Columns at Illerdiffen; and near this Place the Troops had fcarcely reached their Ground when the Enemy began a fresh Attack on the Left; at the fame time a Report waз received, that a ftrong Column was on its March to Kempton. Every Thing announced on the Part of the Enemy the Intention of an Attack. General Kray therefore had determined to proceed to Ulm, where he will be joined by the Corps of General Stanai, confifting of Ten Battalions and a large Proportion of Cavalry, befides the Second Divifion of the Bavarians. The Affair of this Day, in which the Bavarians diftinguished themselves much to the Satisfaction of General Kray, terminated in one of Advanced Pofts.

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1 have the Honor to be, &c. H. CLINTON.

MY LORD,

Donauwerth, May 13, 1800. HAVE much Satisfaction in tranfmitting to your Lordship the enclofed Extract from the General Orders iffued by the Commander in Chief of the Imperial Army on the 11th Inftant, bearing the moft honorable Teftimony to the Conduct of the First Divifion of the Bavarian Troops in the Service of His Majefty, commanded by Colonel Baron de Wreede, acting as Brigadier General.

Too much cannot be faid in Praife of the Exer tions that have been made on this Occafion by their Serene Highneffes the Elector of Bavaria and the Duke of Wurtemberg, to put the Subfidiary Troops

in a Situation to take the Field, to haften their March towards the Auftrian Army, and in every Respect to fulfil and make good the Engagements. they had severally contracted with His Majefty. I am, &c. &c.

W. WICKHAM.

Extra from the General Orders of the Imperial and Royal Army in Germany.

THE Bavarian Troops diftinguished themselves fo much by their Bravery and their Steadiness in the Action of Yesterday, that I feel myself bound to give this public Affurance to their Commander Colonel Baron de Wreede, as well as to the Officers and the Whole Corps, not only that I am entirely fatisfied with their Conduct, but that I owe them my very best Thanks, which I beg them to accept.

MY LORD,

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Donauwerth, May 13, 1800.

that General Kray having been attacked on the 11th Inftant on his March from Memmingen to Ulm, had repulfed the Enemy and driven him beyond Memmingen, where, in confequence of this Succefs, he left a confiderable Corps under General Merfelde, who is charged to keep open the Com munication with Prince Reufs in the Voralberg.

The main Army retired to Ulm, where it has effected its Junction with the Second Divifion of the Bavarian Subfidiary Army, and with General Star

ray.

I have the Honor to be, &c. &c.

W. WICKHAM.

FROM THE

LONDON GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY

or JUNE 1ft, 1800.

No. VIII.

Admiralty Office, May 31, 1800.

Extracts of Letters from Vice-Admiral Lord Keith, Commander in Chief of His Majelly's Ships and Veffels in the Mediterranean, to Evan Nepean, Efq; Secretary of the Admiralty, dated on board the Mi. nataur, of Genoa, the 3d and 9th of May 1800.

N the 29th Ultimo, General D'Ott communi.

ON cated to me his Intention of making a general

Attack on all Sides of Genoa, and requested Cooperation, and that we might fettle the Plan.

At Three A. M. on the 30th, the Attack began on the Part of General D'Ott, by Signal from St. Pierre D'Arena, on Quarto, St. Martino, and St. Chriftino, by General Gottesheim, who preffed the Enemy up to the Walls near the Shore, under Cover of the Fire of the Phoenix, Mondovi, Entreprenante, Victoire Tender, Launches and Boats of. the Squadron. The Affair continued until Night, when the Auftrians retired, being unable to diflodge the Enemy from the little Fort of St. Martino, fituated on a Hill Two Miles from the Sea. General D'Ott was moft fuccefsful in feizing Dui Fratelli by Efcalade, and blocking up Diamonti: on the Side of St. Martino the French durft not follow

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